Will you pay £25 for a ST card?

[Mike Oxlong]

The club are just waiting for the furore over this to blow over but my willingness to spend on anything over and above the ST has been changed for good 

 

It’s the principle not the cost 

[Raj]

Just now, Mike Oxlong said:

The club are just waiting for the furore over this to blow over but my willingness to spend on anything over and above the ST has been changed for good 

 

It’s the principle not the cost 

Im with you on this but what are you doing?

I keep changing my mind!!! 

I want the physical card but i do not want to give the club an extra penny.

 

But i dont want to go digital either!!!

 

Let me know what you do as you can decide for me!

[StanSP]

20 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

When's the deadline to ask for cards? Will be paying the £25, no way am I going digital. It'll be £30 next year though, and eventually they'll not be giving you the option.

5th June I think. 

[Mike Oxlong]

17 minutes ago, Raj said:

Im with you on this but what are you doing?

I keep changing my mind!!! 

I want the physical card but i do not want to give the club an extra penny.

 

But i dont want to go digital either!!!

 

Let me know what you do as you can decide for me!

I will pay for the physical card as that’s what the club don’t want and it suits my own purposes. It won’t be an option at all in a year or two. 

 

I thought long and hard about whether to renew at all but FOMO (probably on our next relegation 🤣) and the enjoyment I get from watching football and Leicester being my team meant that I did although going to watch my local non league side for a tenner gets more attractive each year 

 

But over and above the ST and charge for the card KP won’t get another penny out of me.

 

I’d like to see a cap on ST/match ticket prices as was introduced for away games. When players are on eye watering incomes and with agents and others riding the gravy train there is no moral justification for the prices charged. I know the counter argument is market forces but it just seems wrong to further burden your average fan 

Edited 9 May by Mike Oxlong

[Raj]

58 minutes ago, Mike Oxlong said:

I will pay for the physical card as that’s what the club don’t want and it suits my own purposes. It won’t be an option at all in a year or two. 

 

I thought long and hard about whether to renew at all but FOMO (probably on our next relegation 🤣) and the enjoyment I get from watching football and Leicester being my team meant that I did although going to watch my local non league side for a tenner gets more attractive each year 

 

But over and above the ST and charge for the card KP won’t get another penny out of me.

 

I’d like to see a cap on ST/match ticket prices as was introduced for away games. When players are on eye watering incomes and with agents and others riding the gravy train there is no moral justification for the prices charged. I know the counter argument is market forces but it just seems wrong to further burden your average fan 

I agree with you 100%!!!

 

I give KP NOTHING extra in revenue expect my ST, and i think i only go now, like you FOMO and to get away from the family for a few hours every couple of weeks.!!

 

ST renewal and physical  card it is then.

 

[Spiritwalker]

ST, physical card and fvck all else. 

No shit from the club shop and no overpriced shit food or drink from the concourse.

[Lako42]

Yep, not buying a single thing from them next season. 

[BirminghamFox]

I'm starting with ordering the new kit from China! I will be saving my £25 elsewhere

[SemperEadem]

49 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

Yep, not buying a single thing from them next season. 

Yeah I will be joining that.

[Soar Fox]

1 hour ago, Lako42 said:

Yep, not buying a single thing from them next season. 

Are you renewing?

[carterfox90]

What i want to know is what happens if your phone battery dies, you forget your phone, you drop your phone on the way to the game & it's knackered????

 

loyalty tax 100% 🤬🤬

[phoneticerror]

4 hours ago, carterfox90 said:

What i want to know is what happens if your phone battery dies, you forget your phone, you drop your phone on the way to the game & it's knackered????

 

loyalty tax 100% 🤬🤬

Same thing that happens if you leave your card at home.

[StanSP]

4 hours ago, carterfox90 said:

What i want to know is what happens if your phone battery dies, you forget your phone, you drop your phone on the way to the game & it's knackered????

 

loyalty tax 100% 🤬🤬

The club have said there will be charging points if you're low on battery when you get to the ground. 

As for forgetting/breaking your phone I would hazard a guess that you go to the ticket office and they'll print it for you as a one-off. 

[Viva]

5 hours ago, carterfox90 said:

What i want to know is what happens if your phone battery dies, you forget your phone, you drop your phone on the way to the game & it's knackered????

 

loyalty tax 100% 🤬🤬

How many times have you sat at a match before with either no phone, no battery or a broken phone?! I know the answer is 0 for me and probably most others. There will be even less chance of this happening in future as you will have that extra thought in your mind about your ticket before you leave the house. 

I’ve used mobile tickets on a few occasions when I bring my family along and it’s really not that hard to quickly swipe them all in on my phone. 

 

[Mike Oxlong]

15 minutes ago, Viva said:

How many times have you sat at a match before with either no phone, no battery or a broken phone?! I know the answer is 0 for me and probably most others. There will be even less chance of this happening in future as you will have that extra thought in your mind about your ticket before you leave the house. 

I’ve used mobile tickets on a few occasions when I bring my family along and it’s really not that hard to quickly swipe them all in on my phone. 

 

 

Didn’t ever bring mine for many many years as my mum would have gone fvckin mental 

 

[Halifax Fox]

19 minutes ago, Viva said:

How many times have you sat at a match before with either no phone, no battery or a broken phone?! I know the answer is 0 for me and probably most others. There will be even less chance of this happening in future as you will have that extra thought in your mind about your ticket before you leave the house. 

I’ve used mobile tickets on a few occasions when I bring my family along and it’s really not that hard to quickly swipe them all in on my phone. 

 

Not the impression I get from some folk I’ve queued behind!

[sishades]

Appalling. Im still angry about not having  my ST on a slab of stone.

[Viva]

10 minutes ago, Halifax Fox said:

Not the impression I get from some folk I’ve queued behind!

It really is only pressing two buttons on your phone and putting it next to the reader. Maybe the people that struggle have never used it before. After the first match, season ticket holders that do it every other week really shouldn’t have a problem. 

[phoneticerror]

1 hour ago, StanSP said:

The club have said there will be charging points if you're low on battery when you get to the ground. 

As for forgetting/breaking your phone I would hazard a guess that you go to the ticket office and they'll print it for you as a one-off. 

£25 admin fee to do so 

[phoneticerror]

Mobile tickets don’t bother me in general, but I’d rather have a card. It’s more convenient and I have a mild concern about the efficiency of the ST carrying over when I upgrade my phone, especially if ever switch between iOS and Android.

Edited 10 May by phoneticerror

[oohaahmustafa]

I am right in thinking the digital one gets emailed to you game by game? And doesn't go into your wallet until you open the attachment, so you can theoretically still just pass it to a mate if you cant go? 

[worth_the_wait]

One of the things about "younger" people (and by younger, I mean under any age between 0 and 100 which suits your purpose) ... is that they trust technology, computers, phones etc.   And they do generally work most of the time; until they don't.  

 

Every single device I've ever owned: PC Desktop, laptop, smart phone ... has generally worked ok, until something goes wrong, and for some inexplicable reason it doesn't work.   Trust me, I've worked with computers all my life.  They go wrong!

 

You can't start it, it freezes and won't restart, the battery fails, the screen goes blank, the screen flickers at 20 times per second, you can't download a file, the file you've downloaded has disappeared, the app won't open, the keyboard won't work, the screen won't swipe properly, and a 101 weird things that I've seen in the last few decades.

 

Short of your hungry labrador eating your card, or you dropping it into a vat of acid ... your card will work stress free every time.     Practically every home match this season, someone has clogged up our turnstile queue by something not working as expected on their phone.

 

[Permafrost]

1 hour ago, Viva said:

It really is only pressing two buttons on your phone and putting it next to the reader. Maybe the people that struggle have never used it before. After the first match, season ticket holders that do it every other week really shouldn’t have a problem. 

Which two buttons is it?

[Matt]

Without fully understanding mobile ticketing, I assume it automatically downloads?

 

However, if that’s not the case and it’s a case of and you have to/you can manually download (and you’ve not done that before arriving at the stadium) I do hope the club will be investing (along with providers) on infrastructure to improve the network? And/or start providing WiFi?

Although even if it down automatically download I assume if you don’t ‘open’ the automatic download it still needs to ‘load’

 

As signal around the stadium is nonexistent.

 

One of the lines I’ve seen put out by the club was that they are “behind” when it comes to be doing digital, well poor network coverage is one of the first things they need to improve.

 

Can’t wait until first game of the season when kick off is delayed by 15 - 30 minutes due to “Turnstile Issues/Faults” or “Server Error”. I’m here for it.

 

Queue emails and social media posts advising fans to arrive early ahead of that first game.

 

Edited 10 May by Matt

[Chelmofox]

24 minutes ago, Matt said:

Without fully understanding mobile ticketing, I assume it automatically downloads?

 

However, if that’s not the case and it’s a case of and you have to/you can manually download (and you’ve not done that before arriving at the stadium) I do hope the club will be investing (along with providers) on infrastructure to improve the network? And/or start providing WiFi?

Although even if it down automatically download I assume if you don’t ‘open’ the automatic download it still needs to ‘load’

 

As signal around the stadium is nonexistent.

 

One of the lines I’ve seen put out by the club was that they are “behind” when it comes to be doing digital, well poor network coverage is one of the first things they need to improve.

 

Can’t wait until first game of the season when kick off is delayed by 15 - 30 minutes due to “Turnstile Issues/Faults” or “Server Error”. I’m here for it.

 

Queue emails and social media posts advising fans to arrive early ahead of that first game.

 

When buying mobile tickets as a member its all sorted long before you head to the ground. Its in my wallet (i obvs check it) and just open the wallet when i get to the game. I've never had a single issue and been to every home game this season with the digital ticket. But then, i check them and i get to the ground in good time.